mongooses Mongooses are small carnivores of the family Viveridae. (Full text)

BIG MONGOOSES ARE BACK!

(With apologies to Spike Milligan) As small terrestrial carnivores related to weasels and polecats, mongooses are similar in design and ecology to the first mammalian carnivores which appeared on the scene when the dinosaurs vanished 60 million years ago. (Full text)

At Chobe, the mongooses are thought to have caught the disease from rubbish heaps outside a tourist lodge that were contaminated with the human pathogen. (Full text)